The Color of Our Sky, Amita Trasi
The Color of Our Sky, Amita Trasi
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The Color of Our Sky
A Novel

Author: Amita Trasi

Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi, Sneha Mathan

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/18/2017


Synopsis

In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice—a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village girl from the lower caste Yellama cult has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high spirited eight-year-old Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different world—one of ice cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a sisterhood.

But one night in 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara’s family home and disappears. Shortly thereafter, Tara and her father move to America. A new life in Los Angeles awaits them but Tara never recovers from the loss of her best friend, or stops wondering if she was somehow responsible for Mukta's abduction.

Eleven years later, Tara, now an adult, returns to India determined to find Mukta. As her search takes her into the brutal underground world of human trafficking, Tara begins to uncover long-buried secrets in her own family that might explain what happened to Mukta—and why she came to live with Tara’s family in the first place.

Moving from a traditional Indian village to the bustling modern metropolis of Mumbai, to Los Angeles and back again, this is a heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of an unlikely friendship—a story of love, betrayal, and, ultimately, redemption.

About Amita Trasi

Amita Trasi was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She has an MBA in human resource management, and currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and two cats.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on November 18, 2017

A beautiful testament to friendship depicted through the story of Tara and Mukta which starts in 1987 in Mumbai. We are introduced to their two different worlds from different castes and then how they are brought together when Tara's father who works to help orphan children , brings Mukta home. There......more

Goodreads review by Austin on June 17, 2017

Let me begin with a bit of a disclaimer regarding my soul: I realize the content and story written in this novel are of utmost social importance, and that inherited prostitution in India is a moral abomination, and that these women lead miserable, suffering lives that I could never truly imagine or......more

Goodreads review by Dana on June 19, 2015

When I picked up this book, admittedly because of its beautiful cover, I never expected the inside to match the outside. This book really touched me and I found myself extremely invested in the characters and the story. The characters are so complex, yet so relatable. Mukta broke my heart. It was ve......more

Goodreads review by Cym on March 29, 2023

Book 20/100 for the 2023 Goodreads Reading Challenge. Firstly, thank you Rosh for taking the time to converse with me about the caste-based system in India! 💖 I can't recall if I had read this book before ? Or if I had just read a book with a very similar plot because I had major deja vu whilst readin......more

Goodreads review by El Librero de Valentina on February 23, 2018

Muy bonita historia sobre la amistad y los lazos inquebrantable que forjamos a lo largo de la vida. Reseña próximamente en el canal......more